fat. for reals.
(Cheat days #5 and #6 were okay. Nothing too exciting to report...)
I went for my BODPOD analysis yesterday morning.
Wow, it was definitely an eye opener.
As of Saturday morning I thought my stats were:
Was: 73kg
Now: 65.5kg
But turns out my scales at home are out of whack. By 2 whole kilograms!
So I probably was 75kg and now I'm 67.120kg.
And that isn't the worst of it!
Of the 67.120kg of weight, 39.092kg is muscle/water/bone (i.e. fat free mass) and a whopping TWENTY EIGHT KILOS (28.028kg) is FAT. Which is 41.8% of my mass.
WELL, HI FATTY.
Dude, what a shock. I can't ignore these numbers now. I couldn't fathom how much I would've had on my body before my diet.
So yeah, I was super disappointed in myself. But the exercise scientist who tested me talked me through it.
I told him beforehand in an e-mail that I hadn't been doing any exercise as part of my Slow-Carb Diet and that my goal was to lose 10kg and work on fitness. He said that it was a realistic goal and -10kg would put me at a moderately healthy 30% body fat (I would love to be at 25%). He also said that by adding resistance training in the future it would help a lot in terms of gaining muscle weight too.
Although he also said that if I'm feeling healthy and still losing weight whilst only changing my nutrition, that's cool.
I was happy to see that I've lost about 8cm around my waist though *silver lining* and that I burn about 1122cal a day being sedentary.
I also got a pep talk from Andrew which was good. I like the 4HB community, Twitter and forums and blogs are great motivators and so's Andrew who gives it to me straight ("Don't read too much into it, women carry more weight than men anyway. And plus, breasts."). He's encouraged (forced) me to get myself a kettlebell now so I can start training, so I'll check them out this weekend. I hope I can get a pink one.
I also told him about how some of the people I've told about my diet are being judgey or whatever, and he's like, "Tell them you don't have a fucking eating disorder and just fuck off". Yup, ok :)
I'm going to go back for another analysis, perhaps just before I leave for OS (it isn't cheap).
So yeah, I comfort ate the rest of yesterday lol.
I'm happy that I feel better about my body (and that my jeans fit again after 4 years) and I feel like I'm feeding my body good foods (6 days a week) but I'm glad I found out my true weights so now I know I've still got a long way to go :)
I went for my BODPOD analysis yesterday morning.
Wow, it was definitely an eye opener.
As of Saturday morning I thought my stats were:
Was: 73kg
Now: 65.5kg
But turns out my scales at home are out of whack. By 2 whole kilograms!
So I probably was 75kg and now I'm 67.120kg.
And that isn't the worst of it!
Of the 67.120kg of weight, 39.092kg is muscle/water/bone (i.e. fat free mass) and a whopping TWENTY EIGHT KILOS (28.028kg) is FAT. Which is 41.8% of my mass.
WELL, HI FATTY.
Dude, what a shock. I can't ignore these numbers now. I couldn't fathom how much I would've had on my body before my diet.
So yeah, I was super disappointed in myself. But the exercise scientist who tested me talked me through it.
I told him beforehand in an e-mail that I hadn't been doing any exercise as part of my Slow-Carb Diet and that my goal was to lose 10kg and work on fitness. He said that it was a realistic goal and -10kg would put me at a moderately healthy 30% body fat (I would love to be at 25%). He also said that by adding resistance training in the future it would help a lot in terms of gaining muscle weight too.
Although he also said that if I'm feeling healthy and still losing weight whilst only changing my nutrition, that's cool.
I was happy to see that I've lost about 8cm around my waist though *silver lining* and that I burn about 1122cal a day being sedentary.
I also got a pep talk from Andrew which was good. I like the 4HB community, Twitter and forums and blogs are great motivators and so's Andrew who gives it to me straight ("Don't read too much into it, women carry more weight than men anyway. And plus, breasts."). He's encouraged (forced) me to get myself a kettlebell now so I can start training, so I'll check them out this weekend. I hope I can get a pink one.
I also told him about how some of the people I've told about my diet are being judgey or whatever, and he's like, "Tell them you don't have a fucking eating disorder and just fuck off". Yup, ok :)
I'm going to go back for another analysis, perhaps just before I leave for OS (it isn't cheap).
So yeah, I comfort ate the rest of yesterday lol.
I'm happy that I feel better about my body (and that my jeans fit again after 4 years) and I feel like I'm feeding my body good foods (6 days a week) but I'm glad I found out my true weights so now I know I've still got a long way to go :)